He is also using OpenCaster and free tools like DVBsnoop under Linux.
You can see how he managed to fill the DVB SI tables to handle an HbbTV application.
But now this is integrated inside OpenCaster so you just have to use them without worry.

Me again ... and last night I had an idea to improve the logging messages.
Just think about the HASH option on the FTP client console. Remember
this '#' character growing for every packet received.
Same stuff with the command WGET that shows you a graph of the current speed.

Years ago we were able to do such stuff on text consoles using again ANSI escape sequences !!

LOG4J is being used by a lot of JAVA developers.
It is a better way of displaying debugging messages other than using the old "system.out" method.

But under LINUX, you can improve a lot those outputs. You can colorized them !!
Yeah this is true. It's not magic. You just have to remember that years ago,
we were using ANSI syntax on BBS (Bulletin Board Systems ... before the era of Internet).

Thus the trick is just to define your own log4j appender with your own class :

Then you can see the colored output using your Jetty or Tomcat server.
You just have to be precise when you specify the level of your log message.
In fact those levels will be filtered using a threshold one.

I think we can improve the way it looks inside a single log message by putting the given parameters in bold for example (as it is done in editors using syntax highlighting)
But this will be for another blog ...
In the meantime, you can see how to code color sequences :ANSI color codes

For the time being, ENJOY your new way of life with proper logging messages !!

For this new year, OpenCaster(tm) has been upgraded to v2.5
In this new version, you can find a new option (set by default)
in the carousel builder tool.

The tool called oc-update.sh now contains a new smart compression skill.
You can have files with .solo filename extension that will be able to be updated
in their own DSMCC module (in order to have a quick carousel's file update)

ENJOY this new option that will be useful for HbbTV services on our DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) channels.

btw: OpenCaster manual has also been upgraded to v1.8 (file called AvalpaBroadcastServerUserManual-v1.8.pdf)